Tens of thousands protest in Prague against Czech government, EU and NATO

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Czech people are very experienced in guerilla warfare.

They were the first ones to protest the Soviets, so they needed tanks to suppress them. They also plotted the assassination of Heydrich.

If any Eastern European countries fascist puppet government installed or at least supported by US puppeteers is overthrown by its actual citizens, my best bets are:

Poland, Hungary or Czech Republic.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I wouldn’t count Hungary as having a US-controlled puppet government. Hungary is neutral on the Russia-Ukraine war, did not impose sanctions against Russia, and is actually rejecting US-backed LGBT ideology. Obviously, Orbán and his government are not perfect, but he stands up to the EU and NATO.

But God speed Czechia and Poland.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Orban is tolerated as long as he doesn't switch sides by US deep-state, I suppose.

They don't really care what or who put him into power, as long as they can influence him well enough.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

my best bets are: ... Czech Republic

Probably not. Our society today is kind of lax today... we'd have to be in a really big trouble for anything to happen

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wait for inflation and winter. :-)

Germany and France eagerly do.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I'm expecting more protests... no riots though. There are local elections soon though so politicians are probably kind of worried anyway

[–]The_Lear_Bluce_Ree 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I bet mainstream news doesn't cover it at all just like all public unrest because they don't want it catching fire

[–]RedEyedWarrior 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They won’t. If I told my parents there were riots in Prague, they’d be shocked.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It was covered in the local media, everyone knows about it here. I think that Reuters and others covered it too

edit: yeah this is the Reuters article, didn't care about the link lol

[–]RedEyedWarrior 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are RTÉ and Virgin News covering it?

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They did though the Czech public TV was paying less attention to it than when there were their favorite demonstrations taking place. Still it left a pretty big impact I'd say. Sad to see that this was organized by people who would be glad if we all sucked Putin's dick.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who leads the centre-right, five-party coalition, told CTK news service on Saturday that the protesters did not have the country's best interests at heart.

Goes to show again and again how out of touch politicians are. How is it in the best interests of regular people to freeze to death just to stick it to Putin?

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

He said that the organizers didn't have the country's best interests at heart, but it kinda looked like he wanted to dismiss the situation, which was a bad move.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I hope the protests keep coming.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Our government just put a price cap on gas and electricity so we'll see.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This is going to reduce the supply of gas and electricity. Russia and the Middle East want to be paid for the products they sell.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So far the government will pay for anything above the price cap. Also Russia is allegedly not sending gas to Europe anymore

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Good for Russia, they will sell to China and be happy

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And China will then sell to us. It's cringe honestly

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

u/neomarxist_bullshit was there there

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for for the ping... don't follow much Saidit recently but will respond here

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Prague dweller here, I was there and stuck around for a while.

This protest was organized by pro-Russian people who said they want to leave EU, NATO, and suck Bolshevik cock (we had a 40 years' experience with that unfortunately). I am very much against the EU but these people are likely literal Putin's agents.

Not sure about the crowd, some were likely pro-Russian but many were there probably because they just dislike everything costing so much, so I'm not surprised they came, because our incompetent government has been doing nothing or making the situation even worse so far.

Most Czechs consider what Russia is doing evil and there is enormous support for Ukrainians.

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, it's nice to have some local perspective.